Omaha daily bee., 1887-08-29
TALKS ABOUT THE STATE.
Items Of Interest from Lively Nebraska
Towns from Bee Correspondents.
THE SARATOGA OF THE WEST.
The Little Town of McCool Humping
ltself-St. Paul, Fairbury, Coium-
bus, Hickman and Galloway
Heard From.
NfCCOol The Hum mer.

McCool The Hummer.
McCooL JUNCTION, Neb., August &C.,
Correspondence OF the BEE. l.
"Punch conductor, punch with care,
Punch In the presence Of the passsn jaire."
Next week will finish track laying of
the Kansas City & Omaha railroad. This
last outlet gives McCool connection with
Kansas City and st. Louis. With eastern
connections with Omaha and Chicago
and direct connections with Hastings and
the west, McCool has as good railroad con-
nections as any western town. Who
would have thought eight months ago
when gazing upon broad fields Of corn
stalks that in six months short time right
here should spring up town Of 300 In.
habitants. While the growth of McCool
in the past has been remarkable, every
indication seems to prove that 1t will
be greater in the future. Every
putting his shoulder to the wheel, and
help to keep things moving. In six
months growth McCool has a larger pop
ulation than sister towns had in some
cases six years. Our merchants sell more
goods according to the stock they carry
than any other town in the county, and
McCool has become the best grain and
farm produce market. The Indications are
that the coming year will witness greater
changes than ever. 1t is predicted that
it will witness the transformation of q
good country town into thriving, bust
ling little city. McCool has the country
around to support city, has the railroad
facilities to make great shipping point,
has the water power-the big Blue river
to make manufacturing city of no
small size, has the beautiful groves and
natural advantages to make it one of the
prettiest, most pleasant, active little
towns IN the state. Don't worry yourself
out trying to rustic in dead town, but
come to McCool and help us make one of
the best little cities in the state: The
present crop prospects around McCool
are good. Corn, the principal crop, will
average twenty-five to forty.five bushels
per acre. Farmers living near are nearly
all well.to.do and extensive stock raisers.
What McCool wants Is some manufao-
turer to locate here and utilize some of
the water power on the Blue, dry goods
man to put in stock of dry goods, a
clothing house, a good stock OF furni-
ture, and many other lines of business
Neb.
Beautiful Crete's Boom.
CRETE. Neb., August 25.-[ Cor.
respondence of the BEE. Our city will
soon have the electric light completed,
and bids have been received from four.
teen companies on the water works,
which are to be put in this fall. The map
of Crete which Prof. Finch has been
working on for the past six weeks, is
about completed. Many of our business
men and citizens have been in to view it
and pronounce it accurate and perfect of
Crete As presented in this map, she Is
shown as nature made her-the most beau.
tiful town in the state of Nebraska. The
river, with its beautiful curves and num-
erous islands; the tair grounds, Riverside
lege campus, the college additions, the
location of the buildings, the railroads
with their yards and depot grounds.
There is a wide margin on the four sides
of the map in which to give cuts of some
of our finest buildings and beautiful
scenes along the Blue river and birds
eye view of Crete from College hill. Six
thousand copies will be engraved and
sent to every important town and hamle,
in the United States. We predict in the
near future that Crete will be the Sara
toga of the west.
Notes From st. Paul.
ST, PAUL. Neb., August 27.-[Corre-
spondence of the BEE. THE Teachers
institute of Howard county convened fol
Its ninth annual session on the 22d inst
The attendance is good and unusual in
terest manifested by the teachers. The
county superintendent, Miss c. c. Covey
is conductor. assisted by U. L. Emerson
of Grnnell, Ia, and S. A. Kendall, of JEFF
serson, Ia. These gentlemen are efficient
| and able instructors, and are doing work
in this institute which few can equal anG
none excel. State Superintendent Lane
made a pleasant and unexpected cal
upon the teachers on the morning of the
oath, and in the evening of the same day
| Ella June Meade gave her new enter
tainment at the opera house. The rain
had fallen all day, but we'll filled house
| greeted her first appearance in the town
The excavation for stand pipe. for the
court house. Considerable delay has
been caused by the failure of the con
tractor to procure the necessary material
but the work will now be carried for
ward and the city supplied with watel
some time In November.
The races which the st. Paul Driving
and Trotting ASSOCIATION advertised fol
| Thursday and Friday, the 35th and 26tt
inst. were postponed until fair week. il
September.
| Several new brick blocks are IN process.
of erection, and the outlook for business
enterprises good.
Facts From Fairbury.
FAIRBURY, Neb., August 25.-[Corre
spondence of the BEE. I'VE will get 8
fair crop of corn in this county and the
farmers anticipate good prices for it
The probability is that the corn croI
will bring them more than if they had q
big crop and other localities had no
| failed.
The foundations for the depot ano
roundhouse of the St. Joseph IL Grant
Island and Kansas City & Omaha rail.
roads are obout completed, also new
water tank Is being built for the same
roads.
The Rock Island is building more side
| tracks Of which If has seven now about